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Letter To Charles Darwin
Words: 529 - Pages: 2.... I, like
you, gave up luxuries at a point in my life in order to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn
what it had to teach, and not , when I came to die, to discover that I had
not lived.
Following the advice of my friend Emerson, I, like you, went out
and experienced nature as a transparent eyeball, observing as much as I
could. I noticed the Pickerel under the ice in the pond, I never pondered
the possibility of the different kinds of Pickerel to be originated from
the same species. When you were observing nature in the Galapagos Islands,
you saw all the different types of plants and an .....
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Pete Rose
Words: 2670 - Pages: 10.... the Reds opening day team in the same year, 1963. On opening day Pete said he wasn't nervous at all until about 10 minutes before the game. It hit him that he was now starting for the Cincinnati Reds, when not more than a year ago he thought football was his life. He walked in his first at bat, on 4 straight pitches. He said it wasn't because of nerves though, he just didn't want to swing. He got his first hit in the majors three games later, against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Pete played with the Cincinnati Reds from 1963 to 1978, and then he signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. He played in Philly from 1979 to 1983, and then .....
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Ulysses S. Grant And Robert E. Lee
Words: 392 - Pages: 2.... give the government strength and virtue. He thought a person would define himself in relation to his own region. People would be loyal to local region first and a nation second. Lee would fight to the end to preserve southernaristocracy because he was defending everything that gave his own life its deepest meaning.
Ulysses S Grant was the son of a western frontiersman. He represented a body of people who owed reverance and obeisance to no one, who were self reliant, and who didn't care for anything in the past. The people he represented stood for democarcy and a society that might have privileges, but privileges each man had won for h .....
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Robert Edward Lee
Words: 486 - Pages: 2.... war broke out with Mexico in 1840 Lee was sent to Mexico for two
years as an engieneering officer. There he was praised for his galantry and
good conduct. In the war with Mexico he was wounded in the Storming of
Chapultepec in 1847. The Mexican war was suposed to be the help that Lee needed
in the experance of commanding troops.
After the Mexican war Lee was assigned to Baltimore in 1848, he was to
supervise the construction of Fort Carrol for nearly four years.
In 1852 the United States military academy at West Point became Lees
home when he was appointed superintendent. During his three year stint he
raised acidemic standar .....
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Paul Ehrlich
Words: 957 - Pages: 4.... enter the body has made him the "founder" of modern chemotherapy.
Ehrlich is best known for his work on curing syphilis. Syphilis is an infectious disease transmitted by sexual contact or kissing. Ehrlich named the compound that cured syphilis "salvarsan". This was a very effective way to cure syphilis.
II. Background
A. Family
Paul Ehrlich was born on March 14, 1854 in Strehlen, Silesia. Ehrlich was born in to a middle-class, Jewish family. He was the only son and fourth child of Ismar and Rosa Ehrlich. His father owned a small distillery. Ehrlich had an Orthodox Jewish upbringing in a time when being a J .....
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Benjamin Franklin
Words: 834 - Pages: 4.... example, fearing that Franklin might run away to sea, his father apprenticed him to an older brother, James, a printer, who published a newspaper. Knowing that his brother would not publish anything written by a boy, Franklin wrote a clever and amusing letter, signed it Silence Dogood, and slipped it under the door of the printshop at night (340). Not knowing it was Franklin who wrote the letter, James published it and this was the beginning of Franklin’s printing career. Franklin felt his brother was more of a master to him instead of a brother and therefore he took it upon himself to “assert his freedom” and break his apprentice .....
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Albert Einstein 4
Words: 865 - Pages: 4.... fact enrolled in a secondary school in Arrau, Switzerland, and entered the Swill National Polytechnic in Zurich. Again, Einstein was not in favor of the teaching methods and would often skip classes in order to study physics on his own or to play his violin. Although his professors did not think highly of him, Einstein graduated from school in 1900 by studying the notes of a classmate. For the next two years Einstein resorted to substitute teaching and tutoring because his superiors did not recommend him for a university position. In 1902, he was secured a position as an examiner in the Swiss patent office in Mern. During this time he had fa .....
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Wyatt Earp
Words: 2127 - Pages: 8.... children Wyatt Clyde Earp, so there is little chance that he and Wyatt ever had animosity between them over the election.
On January 10, 1870, married Urilla Sutherland in Lamar, Missouri. Wyatt’s father, Nicholas, performed the ceremony. Sometime that same year, Urilla died. How Urilla died is another small mystery in the life of . At least two references, Editor Glenn Boyer's comments in Josie Earp's memoirs states that Urilla died in childbirth. I married , page 38, note 4 Bob Boze Bell notes the same on page 19 of his book, "The Illustrated Life and Times of ". But in Lake's 1931 book, ", Frontier Marshal", he notes very briefly on .....
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Bruce Lee
Words: 688 - Pages: 3.... of the Chinese crime syndicate, the Triads, would sometimes challenge Bruce to a real fight. For the most part Bruce would ignore it" (30). Bruce’s discipline can also be seen in the amount that he practiced his martial arts. He would practice everyday for hours, and even as a young child he was always practicing. "Bruce
Lee’s devotion to kung fu was total. At home, during dinner, he pounded away on a stool with alternate hands to toughen them" (8). Although is a good role model due to his discipline, it is not the only reason.
The second characteristic that made a good role model was his
determination. .....
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Marco Polo
Words: 303 - Pages: 2.... distant lands to trade. In 1269
Marco's father, Nicolo`, and his uncle Maffeo returned to Venice after
being away many years. On a trading expedition they had traveled overland
as far as Cathay (China). Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor of China,
asked them to return with teachers and missionaries for his people. So they
set out again in 1271, and this time they took Marco.
From Venice the Polos sailed to Acre, in Palestine. There two monks,
missionaries to China, joined them. Fearing the hard journey ahead, however,
the monks soon turned back. The Polos crossed the deserts of Persia (Iran)
and Afghanistan. They mounted the height .....
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